He had always expected their enemy to hire an occasional lighter from the Guild for probing raids.

There was time to probe and test and taste, but no time to shape.

Paul slid a foot forward, shifted his weight, and probed with the other foot, met an obstruction.

Now I must probe this Reverend Mother mystery, she thought.

Presently, Paul moved slantwise up the slope, probing cautiously until he found the wall of the fissure, an outcurve of rock there.

Jessica watched as he studied that apocalyptic landscape, his eyes probing into sand rivers and canyons.

Jessica sensed the daughter-mote still touching her inner awareness, probed it without response.

Paul spoke dryly, probing the emotional undercurrents.

Any more probing sorties?

Paul remained silent, probing with his inner senses, examining the blood from the wound, finding a trace of soporific from the Emperor’s blade.

Again, they circled, probing.

With her psychokinesthetic probing, she moved into it, shifted an oxygen mote, allowed another carbon mote to link, reattached a linkage of oxygen …. hydrogen.

Paul resumed his probing circle, allowing himself a cold smile at the tone of unease in Feyd-Rautha’s voice, evidence that the pressure of silence was building.

Around her, the escort kept its distance, fanning out into the rocks of the ridge to probe for dangers — and giving the mate of Muad’Dib, the mother of his firstborn, the thing she had requested: a moment to walk alone.

She shot a probing stare at him, said: "His plan has good points and bad points …. as any plan would at this stage.

Before she could probe this, he said: "I do not necessarily offer myself as mate.

And if we crossed there making only natural sounds, the kind that don’t attract the worms …. " Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.